GROUP NARRATIVE

Group Narrative

Amys Ideas
- Innocent girl
- Male old killer
- White significance for female
-Black significance for male
- Mask

Lukes Ideas
- Posion injection
-Target marker teenagers
-White significance for female
-Blue police officer suit
this is to mislead the audience
it creates a better enigma of the story

Maxs Ideas
-Alley way
- Train station
- Fast editing
- Isolated young girl
- Boot of the car
-Stalker /

Adams Idea
- Low key lighting
-Old man
-Young teenager
-Abandoned location
-Ghosts
-Shaddowing

GROUP IDEA INCLUDES
Our groups idea includes the use of low-key lighting, it will be filmed using the alley way next to loughton station, at loughton station and in the boot of a car. The characters will include a young innocent girl wearing white and a old man wearing a blue overcoat this is using everyones ideas and still confusing the audience into who is innocent as the man will be wearing blue which is the colour of trust contradicting the audience and who to connect with as a viewer. The old man is a stalker and injects a posion into the young girls neck in the alley way the girl will be thrown into the boot of a car fast editing will be used when moving the body the alley way will be adondoned using a sense of  an abandoned location. Shaddowing will be used when filming this scene and walking through the alley way.

Film Classification

Film Classification

Films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.
FOR EXAMPLE: LADY AND THE TRAMP

The role of the BBFC - Hartt

Explain why the BBFC is important to the film industry

The BBFC stands for British Boards of Film Classification it sets specific boundaries for age groups so that certain audience members do not view anything unsuitable. For example you wouldn't want a five year old

Individual Narrative

Task one

characters: killer, victim, teenagers, masked(clown),
theme: childhood stalker
narrative: isolated forest, camping trip, stalker, halloween
section of film:opening scene

Group narrative

- Characters: Killer (old man mask) Victim (young working girl) Hero (random man)
- Theme:  Stalker, Pervert, Injecting poison into her, creep
-Narrative: isolated alley way, car boot, underpass.
- Section of film: opening scene

Group shot ideas
-white shirt, cream skirt and blazer for woman
-trilby hat, blue police uniform
-hero

History of a thriller genre - Hartt

History of the thriller genre
The three main sub-genres that thriller films are usually organised into are mystery, suspense and detective thrillers. Thriller films create tension, anxiety, and ambiguity, an increase on expectations, high levels of expectancy, suspense and excitement. A thriller genre has a narrative aim to pursue a single minded goal of thrills towards the audience as well as tension to keep the audience ‘on the edge of their seats’. Thrillers usually take place in settings like ordinary suburb/cities. However sometimes they may take place partly or wholly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, Polar Regions, deserts or the high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently ordinary citizens unfamiliar to danger. Though more common in crime thrillers, there may be a mob or a gang of men accustomed to danger, like police officers and detectives for example. While heroes have traditionally been men, woman lead characters has increased and become fairly popular. For example: Lost the television show is based on a desert island whereas the television show 24 is set in New York city.

In many sentiments the media believe that the thriller genre has changed from being more psychological to blood and gore based. The horror genre has slightly influenced the thriller genre in the recent years; they have more gore/sadistic violence, terror, brutality and death counts. Recent thrillers that went down this path were Funny Games, Untraceable, The last house on the left and P2. Thriller genres can correspondingly mix into the sub-genre conspiracy thrillers, mystery thrillers, political thrillers, psychological thrillers, disaster thrillers and religious thrillers. While most thrillers are formed in some combination of the above sub-genres they have recently been mixed with the horror genre, spy genre and action/adventure.

Heavy rain was a well selling video game related to the thriller genre made for PlayStation 3. Heavy rain allows you the audience to make your own decisions as to where the story will lead you giving you four perspectives, and one task. The gaming character has to track down a killer that is on the loose. This game is full of exciting, tense and anxious situations leaving the player on edge and with high levels of suspense. This is probably one of the most appealing games on the market as part of the allure is the act in which that the story isn’t just told but is given a chance to be directed into how it is told. The plot is usually taken by the villain character who dowries obstacles that the hero or heroine must over look and get through. Suspense novels are the key to thrillers, one could argue that a film without a suspense filled enigma is not made for success. Thriller films are packed with non-stop action, high stakes, red herrings, plot twists that all not only surprise but excite the audience, in settings that are exotic and vibrant and have a constant pace that builds up throughout the film this explodes at the adrenalin packed climax.

Alfred Hitchcock once said: “The purpose of a thriller is to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what its like.”

Sound Analysis - Miss Georgiou

Sound Analysis

In the opening of the scene Ali is running her hand across the top of a crop field, contrapuntal sound is used here as that would usually be seen as a gentle action this questions the characters personality and portrays a mysterious image.

This is then broken when the glass door is smashed (on screen sound) and Ali opens the door to Beyoncé’s house through the smashed glass. The audience become more aware of why the contrapuntal sound is used, it continues throughout while Ali is sneaking around the house, the audience knows this because on-screen sound is used for light-sound activities such as glasses clinking together. This sound is a quite noise the fact that the audience can hear these sounds and they are presented loudly in sound lets the audience know that Ali’s surroundings are quite and she is moving around quietly.

When Beyoncé gets a call that reminds her to turn on the alarm she sets back home, the car spinning back around is filmed and on screen sound is used again. Beyonce is filmed taking a U turn back around to her house, it is done in a bird’s eye view this alerts the audience that she is vulnerable and is going to be in danger. The same is used when the car is pulling up on the drive. While this is happening the mysterious light but deep music is still being used as a contrapuntal sound.

Ali is then filmed walking up the stairs this presents to the audience that she is a mysterious character as her red shoes show love and passion but also anger. These feelings clash well with the music to confuse the audience further. Again showing the audience that Ali should not be in the house is the door creaking (on screen sound) and her footsteps up the stairs not making a sound, this means Ali was slow when opening the door just in case someone was behind it. She carries on moving around the room places the glasses down and scatters rose petals across the bed.

Meanwhile Beyoncé is getting out of the car, she unbuckles her seatbelt (on screen sound) this sounds like a trigger of a gun, it allows the audience to expect there to be a battle of some kind. She gets out of the car and opens the door to her house, she walks straight to the alarm unaware that Ali is in her house and begins to type in the code (on screen sound again) Ali is in the bedroom and pops a champagne bottle, this alerts Beyoncé and the music becomes more rapid and the audience are made to sit on the edge of their chair.

Parallel sound is used while Ali is setting the scene for what looks like a romantic evening. This is then interrupted by Beyoncé when she enters the room. The diverse acts between the characters make them end up in a fight. Parallel sound is used when Ali looks up at Beyoncé after she is called delusional the music changes slightly to give more effect of her disgusted face, fast paste music is used throughout the whole fight scene.

They begin to fight and a lamp is smashed in the process this is done by using off screen sound, this was probably so the cast didn’t have to actually break the lamp. You do not see the lamp being broken but the audience can hear a clear smash as it supposedly hits the ground. Ali then uses the long wooden part of the lamp as a weapon this is conventional, the music gets faster creating tension.
Beyoncé’s phone begins to ring this is shown using both on screen and off screen straight cuts. When Beyoncé’s phone is ringing in her bag the audience is shown a close up of her phone this is on screen sound, meanwhile it cuts to Beyoncé and Ali fighting and the phone continues to ring this is called off screen sound. Beyoncé then loses Ali and the music changes while she is looking for her. The music is far creepier and light it creates suspense and keeps the audience’s attention. While looking Beyoncé pulls a light switch this has the same effect as the seatbelt and has an uncanny resemblance to a trigger on a gun. Ali then springs out from the left of Beyoncé and begins to attack her, the light switch is another example of Diegetic sound.

Sub-Genres of Thriller - Hartt

Sub-genres

Conspiracy Thriller

This type of genre consists of some sort of hero or heroine (protagonist) who are stereotypically journalists or armature investigators who find themselves trapped in a very powerful organisation. The companies are usually brought down by the protagonist character. This is all about Good vs. Evil. Conspiracy thrillers often play with the secrecy of governments and major organisations in history.
Crime Thriller

The hybrid between crime and thriller has created a more suspenseful account to showing successful and failed crime acts on film. Crime thrillers emphasise action over psychological aspects although there is also a psychological part to this genre as-well. Topics covered are usually double-crosses, heists, shootouts, chases, robberies, killers &murders. Crime thrillers focus more on the criminals and their actives.
Disaster Thriller

This sub-genre follows a certain groups or persons survival in conflict with natural or artificial disaster like floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes eruptions. Some disaster films have also had causes of human activity that has brought mankind on the fence of extinction through nuclear disasters which are artificial. This genre is all about the future and what could happen to mankind if such disasters were to happen.
Mystery Thriller

This sub-genre clashes with the crime sub-genre. However it focuses mostly on the efforts of the detective or the private investigator in order to solve the films enigma. The sub-genre looks at the happenings of the enigma or the crime itself in order to try and figure out what the clues add up to. Audiences are made to take part of the search as they usually follow the protagonise and grow a strong bond with them. This brings a more dramatic effect to the films mystery during the investigation.
Political Thriller

This sub-genre looks into the hopes and stability of the government and the reliance on a hero or heroine (protagonist) who must ensure the stability of the government that employs him in order to prevent a bad things from happening. Repeatedly used scenarios are the US presidential elections and the preventions of world wars occurring .
Religious Thriller

This sub-genre looks at the plots closely religious objects, institutions and questions. Many religious related films usually unravel the positive and the negetive points about religion and how it overcomes the bad in films, through a quest to finding out the truth

Supernatural Thriller

This sub-genre often brings an otherworldly element that shows something out of the ordinary happening to a protagonist that had to overcome this powerful factor. Supernatural thrillers are also mixed in with tension and suspense in addition to having unsuspected twist during the film. The hero and the villain usually have a close link to religious thrillers as usually daemons entering the human body, alien life form, apparitions or the possession of a pivotal character is a element of a super natural thriller film
Techno Thriller

This sub-genre is all out the sophisticated technology playing a prominent part in taking over the world, giving the new world order where mankind is then run by robots. This subgenre is mainly based on fictional speculations on life that tend to follow a science fiction trend. There are many common themes that fall well into this category like world wars, action and science fictional occurrences like aliens taking over with a new manipulation of technologies.